I am on a quest for a bus and have been looking for a good conversion candidate.

I am really stuck on having an MD3060 or an MT643 transmission and a DT466 or 8.3 Cummins.

I have found some 40' Thomas & International busses with the appropriate transmission but the DT466 equipped that I have looked at have all been 300-400k mile rigs. I have found a couple that are under 200k miles, priced right and look good but they have the T444 engine.

What do you all think of the T444 in this application versus the DT466?

I am on a quest for a bus and have been looking for a good conversion candidate.

I am really stuck on having an MD3060 or an MT643 transmission and a DT466 or 8.3 Cummins.

I have found some 40' Thomas & International busses with the appropriate transmission but the DT466 equipped that I have looked at have all been 300-400k mile rigs. I have found a couple that are under 200k miles, priced right and look good but they have the T444 engine.

What do you all think of the T444 in this application versus the DT466?

Thanks

They're both great engines. But in something like a bus bigger is almost always better.

I am on a quest for a bus and have been looking for a good conversion candidate.

I am really stuck on having an MD3060 or an MT643 transmission and a DT466 or 8.3 Cummins.

I have found some 40' Thomas & International busses with the appropriate transmission but the DT466 equipped that I have looked at have all been 300-400k mile rigs. I have found a couple that are under 200k miles, priced right and look good but they have the T444 engine.

What do you all think of the T444 in this application versus the DT466?

Thanks

The 444 is a good pickup engine.
The 466 is a good medium duty truck engine.
Just my opinion.

I also have the T444e and am happy with it. It's a turd but it has started every time I turn on the key, and I didn't exactly buy the bus to drag race it... And I can walk into any auto-parts store and get parts for it, so there's that.

I have a T444E, yep great motor, starts every time, very reliable. But its down on Hp and pretty gutless on the hills. Pulling long grade tends to overheat due to using every once of power for so long. DT466 more modern, efficient and better power, however plagued with injector failures and EGR cooler clogging. So if you willing to put about $2,000 into the DT466 you will have a better motor, but dam international and there engineering department to go backward with durability.